Initiative that involves two issues: cutting cotton subsidies and tariffs, and assisting farm productivity growth in Africa. The …"Four West African nations have demanded that the World Trade Organization's Doha Development Agenda include a Cotton … authors provide estimates of the potential economic impacts of (1) complete or partial removal of cotton subsidies and import …

In West Africa, approximately 16 million people depend directly or indirectly on cotton cultivation. But subsidies in … social importance of cotton in West Africa. It retraces the consultation process on the West African cotton crisis with the … the developed world have suppressed cotton prices and have made it difficult for West African producers to compete …